A new study has confirmed that the Gulf Stream, a crucial ocean current that helps regulate climate and sea levels, is weakening. The flow of warm water through the Florida Straits has slowed by 4% over the past four decades. This slowdown has significant implications for the world’s climate, and scientists are concerned that it may be a sign of further weakening to come.
But profits are up, how could this have possibly happened? People aren’t buying enough of our green washing products, that must be it!
Has anyone tried bribing the gulf stream with some of these massive profits? Everything has a price
Let’s hire a private security firm to find some dirt on that son of a bitch. We’ll find some fucking dirt to get him going!
I heard the gulf stream hangs out near Epstein’s Island! (It’s not that close, please don’t flame my geography knowledge)
No, no, that would be too expensive. Let’s
bribelobby ourboughtelected representatives to pass laws saying it can’t do that. That’ll workIf the gulf stream wants a share of the profits, it needs to pull itself up by its bootstraps and put the work in itself.
If the tax payers want to give me trillions then I can set up some giant fans along the gulf to push the water around
And they say capitalism doesn’t breed innovation!
But for a fraction of time humanity generated profits for shareholders. The End.
Really is our story and our end. Jfc
Whelp, enjoy extinction everyone.
Psh, the capitalists will save us all with their record profits and zeros at the end of their bank accounts! I’m sure that’s not why these rich assholes aren’t trying to race into space or anything.
Which is still incredibly stupid. Even with climate change Earth is a better environment for humans than fucking space. But making things better on Earth would mean doing something good to people that are not them and they can’t have that.
Global revolt against the few inbred old wealth
I hate to say it, but even if somehow the top 1% or .1% disappeared, we’d probably stay on the same trajectory.
Revenge is fine.
At this point its just for a bit of fun
I’m not very hopeful that the situation can or will be reversed. I have only a small hope that those responsible will eventually be properly blamed and punished - but even that is very small.
But it would make us feel better!
This means Europe will freeze.
Only in the winter. Summers will be burning hot.
Brexit benefits.
Good thing we left, now we won’t have to deal with the European climate :)
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Lol
Invest in coat makers, you say?
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Concentrate heat in one section of your house. Make that room comfortable so people in your household want to hang out there. It might seem counterintuitive but freeze a large pot of water so you can keep your food from spoiling in a blackout. Which means it is a good time to make sure you can still heat your home without electricity. If possible setup a space heater in your bathroom around shower time, you want to be warm when you are wet. If you lose all heat it is family snuggle time, kids sleep in the same bed as parents. Make sure you have quilts.
When you travel take an ice pack and microwave it to warm, keep it in your pocket. If you have a car make sure you have space blankets and a large candle with the ability to light it. Remember that clothing can keep you warm and cold so in a warm situation take your extra layer off.
I survived Alaska and the Northern Appalachia, if a dumb ass like me can survive it you can as well.
You’ll be good you got this bro
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Wait wait wait
1%
There’s hope.
It hasn’t been fun since we started paying taxes!
The people that need to care- don’t. And the people that DO care, are unable to do enough to change the outcome.
We’re fucked.
Original scientific work: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023GL105170
It has a plain language summary, nothing as far as dramatic. I definitely didn’t find any actual study predicting a collapse.
Plain Language Summary
The Gulf Stream is a major ocean current located off the East Coast of the United States. It carries a tremendous amount of seawater and along with it heat, carbon, and other ocean constituents. Because of this, the Gulf Stream plays an important role in weather and climate, influencing phenomena as seemingly unrelated as sea level along coastal Florida and temperature and precipitation over continental Europe. Given how important this ocean current is to science and society, scientists have tried to determine whether the Gulf Stream has undergone significant changes under global warming, but so far, they have not reached a firm conclusion. Here we report our effort to synthesize available Gulf Stream observations from the Florida Straits near Miami, and to assess whether and how the Gulf Stream transport there has changed since 1982. We conclude with a high degree of confidence that Gulf Stream transport has indeed slowed by about 4% in the past 40 years, the first conclusive, unambiguous observational evidence that this ocean current has undergone significant change in the recent past. Future studies should try to identify the cause of this change.
What if we all finally stood together and peed facing the same direction?
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That’s great news. We didn’t want to exacerbate already-rising sea levels. We just need to pee harder to bring that 5,700 years down.
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wtf did I just read
Apparently google’s AI knows nothing about sweat or water loss via breathing, and thinks poop comes out like bricks. 😂
My poop comes out like when you sneeze with a mouth full of peanut butter.
Relevant xkcd: https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/
I love how unnecessarily dark that became after the answer to the direct question ended up being boring
We’d just be pissing in the wind.
Wait a minute, This seem like a scene of The Day After Tomorrow?
After becoming YouTube educated on this matter… Not to that extent. The main thing to notice in the short term is the slowing of the gulf stream will reallocate ‘sea level’ on either side of the ocean… Which sounds like a 3ish ft increase on the west, and the same as a decline for the east.
I’m not a water science person though, so I’m just mimicking words.
Woohoo go east coast! We’re safe!
Oh, I thought he meant like “The West” and “The East”
From the perspective of the ocean. So the west of the ocean is the eastern seaboard of the US, and the other side being Europe and Africa.
Wrong movie. This is like The Core.
Hopefully I’m safe-ish in Québec…
It’s sad to see all these climate tipping points taking hold with humans not even (really) trying to slow them down, forget reversing them.
Continiously bickering over pointless things. With wars taking over unexpectedly one after another (in retrospect, maybe not that unexpected). China just itching for anything to start their own little “special operation” next door. While some other militarized countries/organizations are too trigger happy and in fear of missing out on the action.
We may indeed not make it past the hyperobject that is Climate Change simply because we are too busy blaming inflation, opposing political views, illusions of our own imagination and an unending amount of irrationality. Since it is inconvenient/difficult to try and understand slightly complex concept such as taxation, vaccination, immigration, or even just a map amongst so many things, let alone complex systems feeding into each other such as the Human-Ecology-Climate systems.
Moreover, the prevalence of misinformation doesn’t help.
Nevertheless, let us hope for better times. 🥹
you’re not.
If you’re on earth, you’re not safe from catastrophic climate change unfortunately.
our only hope is a absolutely radical shift towards decarbonisation, however the drive of capitalism and greed is an unstoppable force.
Enjoy normal life while we still have it at this point.
We’re not safe anywhere because people move. Borders ar nothing more than a concept.
Is this… It?
